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1/4 Scudo - Charles Emmanuel III
| Issuer | Piedmont-Sardinia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1755-1772 |
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| Value | 1/4 Scudo |
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| Obverse lettering | CAR·EM·D·G·REX·SAR·CYP·ET·IER· 1755 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Charles Emmanuel III spent much of his reign fighting to hold and expand Piedmontese territory, and the financial demands of the War of the Austrian Succession left the Turin mint working hard to maintain coinage output through the 1740s and into the following decades. By the time this fractional scudo type was being struck in the late 1750s and 1760s, Sardinia had consolidated its position as a militarized Alpine state with one of the more disciplined monetary systems in the Italian peninsula.
The Turin mint used a high silver fineness uncommon among Italian states of the period. Examples from the later dates in this run tend to show sharper workmanship than the earlier strikes.